
EXCLUSIVE: The Marvel Studios short list of directors for Captain America 2 just got smaller. The list includes Community‘s Joe & Anthony Russo and The Adjustment Bureau helmer George Nolfi, but I’m told Marvel is talking to others for a film that Disney just dated that film for April 4, 2014, with a storyline that picks up after the upcoming Joss Whedon-directed The Avengers. F. Gary Gray had been on that short list, but I’m hearing that he has withdrawn from consideration and is in hot and heavy negotiations to direct the NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton for New Line Cinema. He’ll likely do that film instead.


seriously? they can’t do any better than this?!
Just give it to the Russos already!!
Marvel doesn’t want a director, they want a puppet.
Looks like they’ve narrowed down the list pretty well.
Oliver Stone. Bam.
Sorry, but he drops out of the running to direct a MAJOR TENTPOLE in order to direct…STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON? I mean, am I missing something here???? That’s like taking 10 steps back. (BTW, I am African-American).
Well look what happened the last time he did a sequel to a hit movie, BE COOL, the sequel to GET SHORTY.
Stop being cheap. Hire Robert Zemeckis.
What makes you so sure Robert Zemeckis would even want to work on this? Also not like he’s been knocking it out of the park in the last ten years between Christmas Carol, Beowulf, etc. His last live action movie was Cast Away.
Nolfi please….I thought he should have been the director on the first movie.
Don’t be stupid TJ. Straight outta Compton is a awesome project and maybe FGG doesn’t care about tentpoles. His whole career is telling me he doesn’t.
Obviously not his whole career. He still directed Be Cool and The Italian Job.
Nolfi. He has FX experience. The Community guys can wait for a comedy.
Joss should do it. He loves Captain America. He made Captain Hammer, after all.
Way better move for Gary TJ. NO directors ever break off a Marvel film, much less a sequel. Much more upside for him on Compton. Way to go Gary, good choice!
Is that Ryan Phillippe in Cap’s suit??
No. That’s fan art of Chris Evans in a conceptual idea of what a movie Cap costume could look like.
Anyone consider that F. Gary Gray doesn’t want to work with Sam Jackson, who would definitely appear in any Captain America sequel? From what I have heard Jackson gave him a hard time during the making of The Negotiator.